Connection of the Analysis of the Book 'Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo' and Social Work Theories

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Social Work, grade: 1,0, University of Ljubljana (Faculty of social work), course: Concepts of social work with young people, language: English, abstract: 'Christiane F. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo' is a non-fictional story about the real-life of German Christiane Vera Felscherinow. Christiane is a girl who moved to Berlin with her family when she was a child. She spent many years of her childhood and teenage-years in the 1970s capital of Germany, where the drug scene was booming, especially at the train station Zoo. Really soon, Christiane started going out, partying, doing drugs and later got addicted to the drug 'heroin' that she and her friends cooler called 'H'. The book which is analyzed throughout this paper, is telling the story of Christiane F. and her addiction to 'H'. The book is written from her perspective in the first person, what is the reason for feeling connected quite well to her, as a reader, and being able to at least kind of imagine how her life through her own eyes must have looked like. In the book, her point of view is added with the opinions of some adults that were her companions of her life in Berlin. The book also brought up the topic of the general ignorance of heroin addiction in the publicity how it was recognized at that time in Berlin and probably also in most of the other parts in the country. The society didn't feel attached or even responsible with the problem of drug abusing youngsters that in fact has already belonged totally to this community. Christiane F.´s story pictures the connection of an early heroin addiction, children alcoholism, the side effect of prostitution to get the money needed to buy the next 'fix' and drug criminality.